You’re labeling data for Google… for free. It’s not about ‘stopping’ bots, but about swindling free labour from the working-class.

A 13-month study published in 2023, “Dazed & Confused: A Large-Scale Real-World User Study of reCAPTCHAv2,” found that reCAPTCHA provides little security against bots and is primarily a tool to track user data, and has cost society an estimated 819 million hours of unpaid human labor.

Other systems for deterring bots don’t force you to menially label data for a for-profit corporation worth billions/trillions. An example of one that is automatic and open-source is anubis.